SAFE-T Act Works Again

And by "works" we mean "fails":

• Two men who who teamed up to mug a passenger aboard a Red Line train were both wearing ankle monitors for pending cases, officials say, and one of them successfully beat a robbery charge just hours before the attack.

  Prosecutors said Shannon Stephens, 23, and Jamari Gray, 21, confronted a 41-year-old man while riding a southbound Red Line train near 47th Street early on September 12. During the holdup, Stephens allegedly cut the victim’s left wrist and palm while Gray struck him in the face. The men allegedly pulled out a chunk of the victim’s beard and got away with his bookbag.

  Stephens and Gray ran off after the attack, but police detained Stephens nearby and arrested Gray when he returned to the train platform carrying the victim’s bookbag — and wearing an ankle monitor, a CPD report said.

  Judge James Murphy III ordered both men detained on charges of robbery and aggravated battery, citing their ankle monitors as a point of concern. Stephens’ arrest came barely 12 hours after prosecutors dropped a separate robbery charge filed against him earlier that month.

Maybe if they packed the ankle monitors with a couple ounces of plastic explosives that could be remotely detonated. 

If they returned to a life of crime after that, even we could probably catch them.